Stories

Tracking Elephants Across Northern Kenya

Our new Northern Kenya Elephant Tracking project is now live, following a successful initial deployment of the first set of tracking collars last week. Over the coming three years we will use 40 new collars to understand – and protect – the...

Four-Legged Soldiers in Fight Against Wildlife Poaching

Man’s best friend is playing an increasing role in the struggle to save wildlife in Africa. The unprecedented surge in both poaching and trafficking of wildlife is prompting government authorities, non-government groups and private land...

Collaborative Conservation in Mozambique’s Vast Niassa Reserve

Niassa National Reserve in Northern Mozambique is a vast area of wilderness that holds one of the five most important elephant populations in Africa, but is under grave threat from elephant poaching, logging and unmanaged human use. Managing...

Defending Some of the Planet’s Last Great Tuskers

Of all the world’s elephants, the few remaining Great Tuskers are those that are most endangered. The price of ivory in China has tripled in the last four years alone, but that’s not all. Ivory is no longer simply a material from which to create...

Cattle Rustling: The age-old tradition of death

Cattle rustling is a long time cultural practice by the pastoral communities found in North East and North West of Kenya. Warriors usually go raid the neighboring communities and return with hundreds of cattle. This show of bravery would earn them...

The Sydney World Parks Congress

“The future is, after all, in the hands of the youth,” said Nelson Mandela of the future of conservation in his speech at the IUCN World Parks Congress (WPC) in 2003. Just over a decade later, at the sixth IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 in...

Anwar the bull

The elephants of Samburu are unusually tame and trusting… Anwar, a young bull, takes his affection to new levels…